Norwegian Newspaper Slams Zuckerberg Over Deleted Photo

The editor-in-chief of Norway's largest newspaper has accused Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg of abusing his position as "world's most powerful editor."

In a 1,400-word essay published Thursday, Espen Egil Hansen (pictured), head of Norwegian daily Aftenposten, called out Facebook and Zuckerberg for deleting a famous war photograph.

Last month, Tom Egeland shared on the social network a series of seven images that changed the history of warfare, including the 1973 Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a naked Kim Phúc fleeing napalm bombs. Shot by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut in South Vietnam in June 1972, the image depicts the 9-year-old girl—stripped of her burning clothes—running with several other children to safety.

Two weeks after posting the photo to Facebook, Egeland was temporarily banned from the site. Aftenposten then wrote a story about the ban and posted its story—and the photo—to the paper's Facebook page. It too was later removed.

"Any photographs of people displaying fully nude genitalia or buttocks, or fully nude female breasts, will beremoved," Facebook said in a warning to Aftenposten, asking that the paper remove or pixelate the picture.

"Less than 24 hours after the e-mail was sent, and before I had time to give my response, you intervened yourselves and deleted the article as well as the image from Aftenposten's Facebook page," Hansen wrote in his open letter to Zuckerberg. "I think you are abusing your power, and I find it hard to believe that you have thought it through thoroughly."

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